Category: Indexing

Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 2

Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 2

This is Part 2 of a two part blog. Part 1 discusses the Index service scaling improvements implemented in Couchbase Server 7.2.2. This second part focuses on reducing memory and disk I/O overheads. Reducing Memory Overheads for Indexer Process Couchbase...

October 23, 2023
Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 1

Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 1

Since the start of this year, we (Couchbase Indexing Team) undertook a project to improve indexing service on Capella. This blog discusses the goals we planned to achieve at the start of this project and the list of improvements delivered...

October 10, 2023
Couchbase Lands A Third Database Patent

Couchbase Lands A Third Database Patent

It seems that with our third database patent, Couchbase is keeping the US Patent & Trademark Office very busy. We are thrilled to announce that Couchbase has been granted its third database patent in the last nine months. The Third...

Smart Batching Index Builds During Rebalance in Couchbase Server 7.1

Smart Batching Index Builds During Rebalance in Couchbase Server 7.1

Rebalance is a central feature of Couchbase Server cluster management. It enables redistribution of services when nodes are added to or removed from a cluster. This feature can adjust data and indexes, plus query and event processing, among the nodes...

What’s New In Couchbase Server 7.1

What’s New In Couchbase Server 7.1

Can a Database Fight Inflation? Introducing Couchbase Server 7.1 This year, I’ve asked myself, how can a database help fight inflation? The answer is to make efficiency improvements in the database that outpace inflation. For as long as I’ve worked...

Couchbase Catalogs for the SQL Server DBA

Couchbase Catalogs for the SQL Server DBA

In this post, we introduce System Catalogs in Couchbase and walk through a specific use case compared to SQL Server. If you’re like me, after 20 years of working with SQL Server, you tend to pick up on things that...

How to Improve Database Performance: 5 Steps You Can Take

How to Improve Database Performance: 5 Steps You Can Take

Deploy a Performance Monitoring Solution Use the latest Commercial version of Couchbase Size your infrastructure accordingly Use Prepared Statements Optimize Indexes There are many steps on the road to better database performance. But first it is necessary to ask what...

Support for Concurrent Index Creation in Indexing Service

Support for Concurrent Index Creation in Indexing Service

Modern applications are implemented as a set of a large number of microservices. Each such microservice may run independently of many other microservices. Such applications expect underlying databases to support multi-tenancy. Couchbase Server 7.0 has introduced Scopes and Collections to...

December 14, 2021
How to Denormalize Imported Documents from RDBMS Tables Using N1QL

How to Denormalize Imported Documents from RDBMS Tables Using N1QL

Data migration is full of challenges. While migrating from a relational database (RDBMS) like SQL Server or Oracle, your main challenge comes at the time of denormalizing migrated documents as per the target data models. With the introduction of scopes...

December 1, 2021
Get Started with Couchbase Capella in a 3 Easy Steps

Get Started with Couchbase Capella in a 3 Easy Steps

Couchbase Capella makes it faster, easier and more affordable for developers and teams to get started with Couchbase. With the recent launch of Couchbase Capella, the award-winning database more accessible than ever. This article is a quick guide on how...

Introducing Ottoman v2.0: An ODM for Node.js & Couchbase

Introducing Ottoman v2.0: An ODM for Node.js & Couchbase

On behalf of the Couchbase team, I’m absolutely thrilled to announce the General Availability of Ottoman 2.0. Ottoman is an Object Document Mapper (ODM) library for Couchbase and Node.js that maps JSON documents stored in Couchbase to native JavaScript objects....

September 30, 2021
How to Build Indexes for Full-Text Search in Couchbase 7.0

How to Build Indexes for Full-Text Search in Couchbase 7.0

Indexes are the underlying infrastructure that make full-text search possible. The new Scopes and Collections feature in Couchbase Server 7.0 makes full-text search in your applications more powerful than ever before. Powering those searches requires full-text indexes. This article provides...